How to Make a Star in Facebook Chat

Facebook, a top social networking website, allows you to communicate instantaneously with your friends by using the chat function. As you chat with other people, you may want to enhance your conversation with stars to decorate your messages. Although star symbols cannot be generated using a shortcut, typically done by simultaneously pressing the "Alt" button and a number on the keyboard, you can still make use of these images by simply accessing your computer's built-in character feature.

Things You'll Need

• Facebook account

Instructions

1. Log in to your Facebook account and click on the green circle chat icon in the lower right-hand side of the page.

2. Click on the name of the friend whom you want to chat with to bring up the chat dialog window.

3. Bring up the "characters" listing on your computer to access the available star symbols. If you are on a Macintosh operating system, open a browser window and select the "Special Characters" option from the "Edit" menu; if you are on Windows, click the "Start" button on your screen and navigate to "Programs," "Accessories," "System Tools" and "Character Map."

4. Select "Miscellaneous Symbols" from the "Symbols" menu (Mac) and click on the star of your choice to highlight it. With Windows, choose "SimHei," "SimSun," "Tahoma," or "Wingdings" from the "Font" drop-down menu to view available stars. Continue by clicking the desired star and then click the "Select" and "Copy" buttons to copy it.

5. Go back to your Facebook chat window and place your cursor in the text field so that you can insert the star. Click the "Insert" button in the character box (Mac), or right-click and paste your star (Windows) to add the symbol to your chat.

Tips & Warnings

• If you cannot access your computer's character feature, you can access an Internet resource to copy the star(s) of your choice and paste them into your chat (see Resources below).

References

• Facebook: How to Use the Chat Feature and Privacy

Resources

• Facebooksymbols.net: Facebook Star Symbols
• Knopok.net: Facebook Symbols, Codes and Cool Characters